Three quotes from "The haunting of Hill House", a 1959 horror novel by Shirley Jackson:
1. No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.
2. The house. It watches every move you make.
3. Whatever walked there, walked alone.
4. [Eleanor and Theodora] lifted their eyes in horror, because the hammering [sound] was against the upper edge of the door, higher than either of them could reach, higher than Luke or the doctor could reach, and the sickening, degrading cold came in waves from whatever was outside the door.
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As a realtor, I know this is true!
jimmymac: That quote is on my spreadsheet too, but it didn't make my top 3. But after you posted it, I couldn't resist adding it. It's just too good. Every so often I just have to break my 3-quote construct.
Leonde: I once watched "The shining" alone late at night while house-sitting alone in a huge house. Big mistake. That house definitely was watching every move I made the rest of that night.